In just the past two months it feels there have been a disproportionate amount of reports of suicides in Bali, particularly vis-à-vis hanging.
A report in Tribun Bali on Tuesday confirms that 2015 has been a rough year, with Denpasar’s Sanglah Hospital Forensics admitting nine bodies to the morgue for suicide by hanging.
We’ve posted on five sad hanging stories in 2015 so far:
- Prohibited from dating, Bali teen hangs herself
- Bali teen girl allegedly hangs herself: Police suspect suicide, boss says she was pregnant
- Bali grandmother’s alleged suicide attempt foiled
- Denpasar construction worker found hanging
- Woman hanged herself in Jimbaran kos, allegedly couldn’t pay tuition
Even back in January, Indonesian site Merdeka noticed the weird trend of people found hanged in Bali in 2015.
We sure hope this won’t be a lasting trend and these occurrences were just outlier cases of seasonal depression and that we won’t hear anymore tragic suicide attempts in Bali moving forward.
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